This riveting analysis looks at the relationship between people, designers, and electronic products. It speculates on how, in the future, cell phones, personal computers, audio equipment, and televisions may merge into one all-purpose tool, blending into the fabric of our homes and offices or even disappearing into our bodies. David Redhead focuses on the role of designers in shaping this brave new world.

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Arts & Photography

Redhead, David

Graphic Design

V&A Publishing

Design is one of the most significant ways in which we shape our world. The products that surround us provide an instant cultural history, a mirror in which our own preoccupations are vividly reflected.Products of our Time uses design to explore the themes that are central to our lives, highlighting our dreams, desires and dilemmas in a time of constant change.

Products of Our Time

Decorative Arts & Design

Birkhauser

This analysis looks at the relationship between people, designers and electronic products. It speculates how in the future mobile phones, PCs, music systems and television may merge into one all-purpose tool, blending into the fabric of our homes and offices.

ELECTRIC DREAMS /ANGLAIS

History & Criticism

VICTORIA ALBERT

A book about design in an age of technological revolution. It explores our relationship with the objects which surround us, arguing that contemporary design—from plastic surgery to Prozac, from landmines to Tamagotchis—is instant cultural history: a window through which we can observe ourselves and perhaps even make sense of our world. Products of Our Time categorises design in the 1990s into a number of key themes. It tracks the move from cheap, 'no-brand' supermarket goods to the up-market minimalism of much of today's packaging; it examines the way in which design is used to create our own identity, including the ways in which we pierce, decorate and change the design of our own bodies; and it looks at the design of electronic objects and the ways in which technology reflects a cultural drift towards violence and high speed. Published to coincide with a major international touring exhibition, starting in Glasgow from November 1999 to February 2000.

Products of our Time

Comics & Graphic Novels

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